Leave it to Psmith by P.G. Wodehouse

More assumed identities at Blandings Castle.

Recommended age: 14 – 16; 16 – 18; Adult

Joe Keeble wants to give some of his money to his step-daughter, Phyllis.   Joe’s wife, Lady Constance, doesn’t like Phyllis and won’t let him give her the money.   Freddie, who wants some money to start a business, offers to steal Constance’s expensive necklace for his Uncle Joe — who would then “spend” twenty thousand pounds on a new necklace (but actually just give her the same stones in a new setting).  This way, Joe would get twenty thousand pounds to control without Constance knowing about it, and she would still have her necklace, and she would be appreciative of the fact that he was willing to replace her necklace.   Freddie is incompetent, so he hires Psmith to steal the necklace.   Psmith enters Blandings under the guise of a poet who was supposed to come, but who had decided not to.  Psmith’s real reason for coming is that he wants to court Eve Halliday who is working there.  In the meantime, there are two real thieves who have also finagled their way into the Castle, also with their eyes on the diamond necklace.

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